NOTABLE QUOTES


QUOTE OF THE DAY


"The term "liberalism," from the Latin "liber" meaning "free," referred originally to the philosophy of freedom.  ...Unfortunately, however, in recent decades, "liberalism" has come to mean something very different.  The word has been taken over, especially in the United States, by philosophical socialists and used by them to refer to their government intervention and "welfare state" programs." Ludwig von Mises
"To lay a ghost at the outset and to dismiss semantics, a liberal is here defined as one who believes in utilizing the full force of  government for the advancement of social, political, and economic justice at the municipal, state, national, and international levels."
Joseph S. Clark Jr.  Mayor of Philadelphia, 1953


"QUOTES"


"When you run across dedicated Socialists, remember that the only difference between a Socialist and a Communist is in the method of takeover.  The desire to seize monolithic control of society is the same in both.  Sometimes people forget that the USSR stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  Some people count Socialism "good" and Communism "bad."  In reality the two are twins." W. Cleon Skousen, "The Naked Communist", 1958

"The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions he is competent to. Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the state governments with the civil rights, laws, police, and administration  of what concerns the state generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties; and each ward direct the interests within itself.  It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best." THOMAS JEFFERSON

"My countrymen, rouse yourselves, and behold the ruin hanging over your heads."  "If Great Britain can order us to pay what taxes she pleases, we are abject slaves." John Dickinson of Pennsylvania 1767

"Let us awaken then, and evince a different spirit,---a spirit that shall inspire the people with confidence in themselves and in us,---a spirit that will encourage them to persevere in this glorious struggle, until their rights and liberties shall be established on a rock." Samuel Adams, 1777

"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't
be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our
women and breed a hardier race!"
-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"Don't forget that you're First Marines! Not all the Communists in hell can overrun you!"
- Chesty Puller motivating his men at Chosin Reservoir

"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the
Air Force has accomplished during the war."
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- Attributed to General George Patton Jr

"If a man does his best, what else is there?" 
- General George Patton Jr

"All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood."
- General George Patton Jr, "War as I knew it" 1947

"On every question of construction let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning can be squeesed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one which was passed." THOMAS JEFFERSON

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." Novanglus. aka John Adams

"The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of manking, are indeed sacred things...." EDMUND BURKE

"It is difficult to escape the feeling that most of the young men and women who passed through our colleges in the years from 1933 to the present do not have the faintest conception of the type of government which Americans for a century and a half knew as the American Republic.....young men and women of America under the age of 40 have never, in their adult years, lived under the American Republic in its original form as it existed from 1789 to 1937." John T. Flynn, 1955

"These are the times that try men's souls.  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Thomas Paine

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale

"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence, which in private life, would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money." Thomas Jefferson